Friday, August 09, 2002
Ok, so here's my daily 5.
We have a good product/service, we have good team that's going to keep improving it. Now the main challenge is to get the word out and get people to come to our site, try our stuff and see how easy it is to create a web application.
In ways it seems like it would be easier to create a "killer app" and have people use it and then realize that we're the ones providing it, and that's how we'd get recognition.
The first step would be a combination of a blog application and a URL storage/tracker. Maybe with the ability for different people to attach notes to the blog. Kind of a cross between a blog and a wiki. So you can decide if you want to let the public attach notes to your stuff, and then if you don't like them, you can always decide to erase them.
We have a good product/service, we have good team that's going to keep improving it. Now the main challenge is to get the word out and get people to come to our site, try our stuff and see how easy it is to create a web application.
In ways it seems like it would be easier to create a "killer app" and have people use it and then realize that we're the ones providing it, and that's how we'd get recognition.
The first step would be a combination of a blog application and a URL storage/tracker. Maybe with the ability for different people to attach notes to the blog. Kind of a cross between a blog and a wiki. So you can decide if you want to let the public attach notes to your stuff, and then if you don't like them, you can always decide to erase them.
Thursday, August 08, 2002
Right away when I started using this, I ran into a problem where I created a link, but forgot to close the quote. Now I can't remove this post from 1:38:03. Oh well.
One of the signs that I'm a software developer at heart is that often when I use this, I get frustrated by the software enough that it distracts me enough from writing the blog and I want instead to create my own blog software from scratch. Shouldn't be hard using the Zapatec software.
I'm the president of Zapatec a small startup in Berkeley, CA. We provide a platform to help people create web based databases quickly with relativelly little pain. Go ahead and check it out, during our Beta period all accounts are free.
Today I had a meeting with Juliet and Adi, and they encouraged me to take a deeper look at the blogging phenomena. This is how it all starts ...
